[Campus-neiu-staff] hope everything went well!

[Jim Campbell]

Hi Shauna,



On Sat, Apr 26, 2014, at 06:24 PM, meg ford wrote:

Hi Shauna,

I think the workshop went very well overall. Students responded really
well to the git activities, although the Ruby aspect of the tutorial
was confusing to a lot of them. Regarding the contributions workshop,
many of the students had a hard time jumping in because they only knew
Java, so I think it would be helpful if we asked students what
languages they were familiar with when they signed up. Because we
didn't use github for the git section, there was a lot of setup
required for them to get started with the contributions section. The
students seemed to feel like they had learned a lot, though, and
overall I think it was a success. We had a really diverse crowd and a
lot of attendees. It's finals week, though, so some students needed to
leave early.

Meg



On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<[1]shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi NEIU volunteers,

I hope everything went well today.  I did get a few messages about
needing bite sized bugs to work on - my apologies for not taking care
of that.  (I should have paid more careful attention to the Trello
board!)  Hopefully everything else went smoothly.  Regardless, I'd love
to hear your feedback about what you think went well, and especially
where you think we can improve.

There's a google form you can fill out to give feedback.  Also happy to
hear feedback in the form of email (or whatever other format you
prefer).

[2]https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S6iI2y2UZkZQF-Bbl60VKVhTGkvh-9jqJS-
PSubwn8Q/viewform

best
Shauna


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I think things went well overall, too. There were a couple of kinks
with the new git activity - I saw people get stuck with Lab 3 step one
[0] where it has the students create a file named 'hello.rb'. It isn't
clear that they should be creating that file instead of just typing out
'puts 'Hello, World!".



Also, because it doesn't help them set a git editor variable, lab eight
[1] drops the students into a vim command prompt to submit their git
commit. If we drop newcomers into a vim command prompt, we're going to
have a bad time.  : )



Those are just quirks with the new git immersion approach. Overall, the
students really liked getting to use git. I think it was a highlight
for them.



The activities at the end . . . I wonder if it might be better to have
everyone settle on one project to work on together. Having people
working together on something might have fostered more energy around
some of the later activities. Most people seemed to work on stuff and
try things out.  I really liked your openhatch project search features,
btw.



Jim







[0] [7]http://gitimmersion.com/lab_03.html

[1] [8]http://gitimmersion.com/lab_08.html

References

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2. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S6iI2y2UZkZQF-Bbl60VKVhTGkvh-9jqJS-PSubwn8Q/viewform
3. mailto:Campus-neiu-staff at lists.openhatch.org
4. http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/campus-neiu-staff
5. mailto:Campus-neiu-staff at lists.openhatch.org
6. http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/campus-neiu-staff
7. http://gitimmersion.com/lab_03.html
8. http://gitimmersion.com/lab_08.html
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